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WRITER FUEL: The Fermi Paradox Explained

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Welcome to the latest installment of “Writer Fuel – cool real-world stories that might inspire your little writer heart. Check out our Writer Fuel page on the LimFic blog for more inspiration. Today:  The Fermi Paradox refers to the dichotomy between the high probability that extraterrestrial intelligence exists and the fact that we have no … Read more

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WRITER FUEL: Does Dark Matter Eat Regular Matter for Lunch?

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Welcome to the latest installment of “Writer Fuel – cool real-world stories that might inspire your little writer heart. Check out our Writer Fuel page on the LimFic blog for more inspiration. Today: Dark matter, one of weirdest substances in the universe, just got weirder. Turns out, this mysterious (and invisible) material could multiply by … Read more

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WRITER FUEL: When a Year Lasts Just 16 Hours

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Welcome to the latest installment of “Writer Fuel – cool real-world stories that might inspire your little writer heart. Check out our Writer Fuel page on the LimFic blog for more inspiration. Today:  Astronomers have broken yet another record, spotting a new gas giant with the shortest known orbit. The world takes just 16 hours … Read more

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WRITER FUEL: How to Get to Earth

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Welcome to the latest installment of “Writer Fuel – cool real-world stories that might inspire your little writer heart. Check out our Writer Fuel page on the LimFic blog for more inspiration. Today:  The universe is inconceivably large and mind-bogglingly old. Given all that time and space, it seems probable that somewhere, sometime, another spark … Read more

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WRITER FUEL: Alien Organisms Could Hitch a Ride Back to Earth

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Welcome to the latest installment of “Writer Fuel – cool real-world stories that might inspire your little writer heart. Check out our Writer Fuel page on the LimFic blog for more inspiration. Today: The growing demand for space exploration is increasing the chances of alien organisms invading Earth and of Earth-based organisms invading other planets, … Read more

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WRITER FUEL: How to Power Your Spacecraft With Antimatter

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Welcome to the latest installment of “Writer Fuel – cool real-world stories that might inspire your little writer heart. Check out our Writer Fuel page on the LimFic blog for more inspiration. Today:  Antimatter is the same as ordinary matter except that it has the opposite electric charge. For instance, an electron, which has a … Read more

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WRITER FUEL: There’s a Giant Barrier in the Middle of the Milky Way

Milky Way barrier - NASA

Welcome to the latest installment of “Writer Fuel – cool real-world stories that might inspire your little writer heart. Check out our Writer Fuel page on the LimFic blog for more inspiration. Today: The center of the Milky Way may be even more bizarre than astronomers thought, according to a new study. For the study, … Read more

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WRITER FUEL: Water on Mars?

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Welcome to the latest installment of “Writer Fuel – cool real-world stories that might inspire your little writer heart. Check out our Writer Fuel page on the LimFic blog for more inspiration. Today: Is there water on Mars? The fourth planet from our sun, Mars, is named after the Roman God of War, so dubbed … Read more

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WRITER FUEL: Space Without a Suit

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Welcome to the latest installment of “Writer Fuel – cool real-world stories that might inspire your little writer heart. Check out our Writer Fuel page on the LimFic blog for more inspiration. Today: Imagine you’re an astronaut exploring the vast expanses of space and — uh oh! — you’re accidentally thrown out of your spacecraft’s … Read more

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WRITER FUEL: All About Wormholes

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Welcome to the latest installment of “Writer Fuel – cool real-world stories that might inspire your little writer heart. Check out our Writer Fuel page on the LimFic blog for more inspiration. Today: A wormhole is a special solution to the equations describing Einstein’s theory of general relativity that connects two distant points in space or time … Read more